How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?

doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-172

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Research article

How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?

Jiang Zhu¹^,2^* , Fuhong He¹^,2^* , Shuhui Song¹^,2 , Jing Wang¹ and Jun Yu¹

¹Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

²Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Genomics 2008, 9:172doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-172


Published:	16 April 2008

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Supplementary figures and tables. Additional file 1 contains supplementary figures and tables in this study. Table S1 shows the tissues covered by cDNA libraries. Table S2 shows the number of genes detected by EST data under different thresholds. Figure S1 shows the comparison among previous microarray-defined HK gene lists. Figure S2 shows the illustration of tissues covered by cDNA libraries. Figure S3 shows the comparisons between EST-defined and microarray-defined HK gene lists in this study.

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Detailed descriptions of HK408 genes. Additional file 2 provides detailed descriptions of the 408 manually-curated housekeeping genes (HK408).

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Expression profiles of HK408 genes. Additional file 3 provides the expression profiles of HK408 genes in 18 tissues among the EST and microarray data.

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Detailed descriptions of 6,909 EST-defined and 2,403 microarray-defined HK genes. Additional file 4 provides detailed descriptions of 6,909 EST-defined and 2,403 microarray-defined HK genes categorized in this study.

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